Control Data Corp has added the RISC-based 910-600 series of machines to the high end of its Cyber family of Unix workstations, claiming a power improvement of between two and five times that of its other models. The 910-600s are the Minneapolis, Minnesota based firm’s versions of Silicon Graphics’ Power Iris workstations, released in the […]
Control Data Corp has added the RISC-based 910-600 series of machines to the high end of its Cyber family of Unix workstations, claiming a power improvement of between two and five times that of its other models. The 910-600s are the Minneapolis, Minnesota based firm’s versions of Silicon Graphics’ Power Iris workstations, released in the US last year, and are aimed at the scientific and engineering market, particularly the automotive and aerospace industries. Based on the RISC chip from MIPS Computer Systems, the 910-612 has two 16MHz processors rated at 13MIPS, the 910-622 and 910-624 use two and four 25MHz, 21MIPS versions of the chip respectively. Prices range from $95,000 for the 910-612 to $115,000 for the 910-622 and $140,000 for the 910 624. All include 8Mb of memory which can be extended up to 64Mb, a 19 colour monitor, 182Mb disk drive, 48 colour bit planes, four bit planes for windows, two sewrial ports, four VME expansion slots and Ethernet controller. Software bundled in with the series includes Unix System V.3, TCP/IP, Extent File System, C compiler and development environment, window manager and graphics library.
